University of Nevada, Reno volleyball captain Sia Liilii discneglected more details about her and her teammates’ dispute with their school over whether to execute a team with a transgfinisher executeer, on Sunday.
While speaking at the “Stand With Women” forum on unpartisanness in women’s sports in Philadelphia, Liilii alleged that officials at her school telderly her and her teammates that the trans athlete they would face is at a unreasonableiserablevantage in women’s sports due to the medications that are acquiren to transition.
“The countless encounterings that my teammates and I were [dragged] into, telling us that we’re not directd enough, that we didn’t comprehend what the science is behind it, that this person was actupartner at a unreasonableiserablevantage toward us women because they were under all these medications,” Liilii shelp.
The opponent that Nevada would have had to face has been alleged to spike the ball at proximately 80 mph, causing dread for the physical acquireedty of teammates, in a legal case filed agetst the NCAA by San Jose State executeer Brooke Slusser.
A 2021 scientific verify set up trans women’s muscle mass remains high after transitioning.
A study published in the British Journal of Sports Medicine set up that transgfinisher women also have mightyer grip strength after transitioning.
ESPN previously depictateigated the subject of transgfinisher athletes executeing in women’s sports in a segment of “Sports Science.” The episode featured cut offal experts, including physiologist Tommy Lundberg, who finishd that male bodies will “unmistrustedly” preserve physical gets over women even if puberty blockers are used.
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Meanwhile, Liilii also encouraged other women’s athletes to speak out agetst having to contend agetst trans competitors.
“I’m here today to tell those women who are forced to execute agetst these bioreasonable males that you have a voice, so use it and be valiant, be valiant, and don’t dread anyslfinisherg,” Liilii shelp.
Former Democrat Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard materializeed at the event too and sent a message to those who have sided in prefer of trans inclusion in women’s sports.
“Why don’t you depend Sia?” Gabbard asked. “Why don’t you depend her teammates and those who are afrhelp of being smashed in the face by a male executeer at filled force with a volleyball?”
Liilii previously alleged that she and her teammates were telderly that they “didn’t comprehend the science” and to “reponder their position,” during a press conference at the university to compriseress their team’s recent forfeit to San Jose State.
“We felt unacquireed and disthink abouted,” Liilii shelp, sobbing. “We met with our school officials to donate them our team’s novel statement, but they wouldn’t even hear it. We were telderly that we weren’t directd enough and that we didn’t comprehend the science. We were telderly to reponder our position.”
Fox News Digital has achieveed out to Nevada think abouting these allegations.
In a previous statement provided to Fox News Digital, Nevada verifyed that the executeers had seeked to forfeit the align but did not have authority to do so themselves.
“A transport inantity of the Wolf Pack women’s volleyball team publishd a statement to the university directing it that the team had determined it was forfeiting the scheduled align with San José State University. While executeers are not apverifyd to forfeit the align, this decision is one that only the university and our department of fits can officipartner originate,” the statement shelp.
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At the press conference on Saturday, Liilii also called out the Mountain West Conference and the NCAA, saying the institutions “are flunking us.”
There, Nevada sophomore Masyn Navarro alleged her teammates have been telderly to “stay hushed” about the dispute during the press conference.
“It should not be this difficult to stand up for women. However, we will now acquire this opportunity to stand up as a team, as some of us have been telderly to stay hushed,” Navarro shelp.
Nevada previously shelp it could not forfeit the align because it would be a violation of state law. Article I, Section 24 of the Nevada Constitution provides that “Equality of Rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by this state or any of its political subdivisions on account of race, color, creed, relations, relationsual orientation, gfinisher identity or conveyion, age, disability, ancestry or national origin.” The constitution was changed in 2022 when Nevada voted to adselect the Equal Rights Amfinishment, which compriseed gfinisher identity to the enumerate of acquireions.
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On Friday, the university declared it would forfeit because it did not have enough executeers to contend. In a statement to Fox News Digital, the program insisted that forfeiting for that reason did not viotardy state law.
“The University of Nevada, Reno’s decision to not execute its scheduled Mountain West Conference align at San José State on Saturday, Oct. 26 was based on not having enough executeers to contend and not based on gfinisher identity or conveyion. This does not viotardy the Nevada Constitution,” the statement read.
Nevada became the fifth team to forfeit a align agetst San Jose State, joining Southern Utah, Boise State, Wyoming and Utah State. The call offlations come with a San Jose State executeer comprised in a legal case agetst the NCAA alleging that she had separated a locker room and bedroom with a transgfinisher teammate, who is still on the team, without ever being telderly that person was a bioreasonable male.
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